Out of Town

portland thursday 4-sunday 7 Waterfront Blues Festival Bringing together rising talents (like young Seattle soul singer Allen Stone) and bona fide legends (Robert Plant presents the Sensational Shape Shifters, Mavis Staples) the Waterfront Blues Fest is a patriotic mini-week of blues and brews. Other artists to watch include Eric Burdon, the former frontman for The […]

seattle Friday 28 Gender Blender As Central Oregon Pride rages on (our one-day event in Drake Park is really trying to be progressive! Hey, at least we have a Pride Day. Yeah, Klamath County, we’re looking at you!), our same-sex-marriage-supporting neighbors to the north will celebrate Seattle’s-own blown-out glitter-bombing pride festival. Events include the ever-fabulous […]

seattle through 23 Seattle International Dance Festival Kickoff for the seventh annual Seattle International Dance Festival will take place at the South Lake Union with free performances by local and international dancers, including Seattle b-boy collective Massive Monkees—a great descriptor for the dancers' apish, primal street-dance style. In addition to inviting performers from as far […]

portland wednesday 12- sunday 16 Portland Pride Week Our neighbors to the north have jumped on the same-sex marriage choo-choo train; time to show those Washingtonians that Oregon supports equal rights, too! But don’t just go to Pride 2013 out of spite that Washington is more socially advanced. The event is going to be a […]

portland thursday 6 Third Annual Captain Picard Day An annual tradition for the schoolchildren aboard the USS Enterprise, Captain Picard Day honors the baldest, baddest Starfleet captain “Next Generation” has to offer. How? With an art contest, of course. Submissions honoring Jean-Luc Picard will be eligible for hundreds of dollars in prizes, but the real […]

portland friday 31 Blitzen Trapper Taking vintage country sounds and making them new, Blitzen Trapper stylishly combines ’70s-style folk with modern rock and roll. Neil Young meets Wilco meets new-school experimental rockers in the family of Dr. Dog, Dawes and Deer Tick. The critics-favorite name drop hit a high point when Blitzen Trapper released the […]

portland friday 24-saturday 25 Patton Oswalt No drunken heckling necessary, Patton Oswalt’s standup is sharp and relevant. Sure, he is remembered for a kitsch role on “King of Queens,” but he is also an original member of the Comedians of Comedy Tour, a vocal opponent of the George W. Bush administration and champion of geek […]

portland saturday 18 Amazine Day Handwritten letters and independent publishing are labeled as antiquated forms of communication in the technological age of text messages and blogs, but the Independent Publishing Resource Center and the Portland Zine Symposium aspire to make the old-school into the new school. They offer certification programs in self-publishing along with classes […]

portland friday 10-sunday 19 The Match.com Monologues Dating in the 21st century is rough. Emails, Googling, Skype, Facebook stalkers, sexting, retweets and online dating profiles all complicate the already mucky courting routine, replacing real-live human interaction with online non-dates, non-relationships and other technological fabrications of love and lust. This can lead to some seriously sidesplitting […]

portland thursday 2 Bonobo Bonobos (plural) are a Central African chimpanzees known for their brazen sexual behavior and for being the closest extant relative to humans. Bonobo (no s), on the other hand, is the alias of Simon Green, a British producer and DJ who emerged in the late 1990s with a thick-layered approach to […]